{"id":151341,"date":"2019-07-23T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=251073"},"modified":"2019-07-23T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:16:12","slug":"wave-money-focuses-on-4g-finance-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/23\/wave-money-focuses-on-4g-finance-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave Money focuses on 4G finance opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tINTERVIEW: Wave Money CEO Brad Jones (pictured) explained 5G will be a long-term play for the mobile financial sector, tipping the technology to open new services which enhance core mobile money services rather than radically alter their make-up.<\/p>\n<p>The company, a joint venture between Telenor and Yoma Bank operating in Myanmar, isn\u2019t looking at 5G \u201cthat closely at this stage in terms of the application of mobile money\u201d. But Jones sees \u201cgreat opportunities\u201d to add value to its current service, for example by enabling it to offer virtual call centres, which it will explore \u201cwhen those networks start to be built\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wave Money initially offered cash transfer services based on unstructured supplementary service data (USSD, or quick codes) using SMS to deliver notifications. \u201cAnd then, all of a sudden, the market just moved so quickly to 4G that we realised we had to, really, change our whole approach\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Today, agents and customers are connected via an app and, while money transfer remains at the heart of the company\u2019s services, it is \u201cmoving heavily into ticketing\u201d and serving an \u201cincredible Facebook e-commerce market in Myanmar\u201d involving several thousand transactions each month.<\/p>\n<p>For people in developing markets, Jones said mobile financial services are \u201cthe bedrock\u201d in terms of \u201ctheir financial stability\u201d, providing safe ways to save and move money, or accessing \u201creasonably priced credit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Click here [1] for more about Wave Money\u2019s journey from challenging long-established informal money transfer methods through to moves to provide credit services to agents and consumers.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/videos\/interviews\/interview-wave-money\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEW: Wave Money CEO Brad Jones (pictured) explained 5G will be a long-term play for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/wave-money-focuses-on-4g-finance-opportunities\/\">Wave Money focuses on 4G finance opportunities<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/23\/wave-money-focuses-on-4g-finance-opportunities\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2073,2151,2,2876,2158,6206,6323,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-DmZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}